According to Jonathan Eig, author of “ Get Capone: The Secret Plot that Captured America’s Most Wanted Gangster,” the gangster was sent to Alcatraz — which cost $250,000 (about $5.7 ...

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Today, some 1.2 million tourists visit Alcatraz a year. AP Another of the prison’s most famous inmates arrived early on. Al Capone, serving time on income tax evasion, landed at Alcatraz in 1939.